lindsey hilsum

AUTHOR(S)

Hilsum, Lindsey

PUB. DATE

January 2006

SOURCE

New Statesman;1/30/2006, Vol. 135 Issue 4777, p17

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Editorial

ABSTRACT

This article reflects on the author's interview with Marwan Barghouti, a convicted terrorist campaigning for the Palestinian elections from his jail cell in Tel-Aviv. Barghouti is seen as the only one who can replace former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and topped the list for Fatah, Arafat's old faction. Barghouti spent three years in solitary confinement before living with 118 other Palestinians. In 2001, he was a Ramallah street leader.